“Railroading or: Twelve Small Stories with the Word Train in the Title”: Excerpt in Books in Canada, October 1989; The Man of My Dreams, Macmillan of Canada, 1990; And Other Stories, Talonbooks, 2001.
“The Look of the Lightning, The Sound of the Birds”: The Third Macmillan Anthology, Macmillan of Canada, April 1990; The Man of My Dreams, Macmillan of Canada, 1990.
“Mastering Effective English (A Linguistic Fable)”: The Man of My Dreams, Macmillan of Canada, 1990. My Grade Twelve English textbook was Mastering Effective English, Third Edition, by J. C. Tressler and C. E. Lewis, Copp Clark Publishing Co. Ltd., 1961.
“Nothing Happens”: The New Quarterly, October 1990.
“A Change is as Good as a Rest”: The Malahat Review, October 1992.
“The Antonyms of Fiction”: Parallel Voices/Voix Paralleles, Quarry Press/XYZ, 1993.
“Weights and Measures”: Queen’s Quarterly, November 1994. The facts and figures in this story are from The Guinness Book of World Records 1993, Bantam Books, 1993.
“Forms of Devotion”: Saturday Night, April 1996; Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures, A Phyllis Bruce Book, HarperCollins Canada, 1998.
“How Deep is the River?”: Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures, A Phyllis Bruce Book, HarperCollins Canada, 1998. Some of the math questions in this story are from Math Matters, Book 1 by Frank Ebos and Paul Zolis, Nelson Canada Ltd., 1981; and Math in Action 2 by P. Pogue, S. Coombs, R. Graham, and W. Morrison, Copp Clark Pitman, 1982.
“Five Small Rooms (A Murder Mystery)”: Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures, A Phyllis Bruce Book, HarperCollins Canada, 1998; The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English, Oxford University Press, 1999. The names of the paint colours in this story are from the series of paint chips available at Canadian Tire.
Permissions
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Faber and Faber: Lines from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot, from Collected Poems 1909–1962, copyright © 1974 by Faber and Faber. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd.
Grove/Atlantic: Excerpt from Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, copyright © 1961 by Grove Press. Reprinted by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
W. W. Norton & Company: Excerpt from The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano, copyright © 1989 by Eduardo Galeano. Reprinted by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Oberon Press: Excerpt from “Into the Midst of It” by Bronwen Wallace, from Common Magic, copyright © 1985 by the Estate of Bronwen Wallace. Reprintedby permission of Oberon Press.
Red Deer Press: Excerpt from The Substance of Forgetting by Kristjana Gunnars, copyright © 1992 by Kristjana Gunnars. Reprinted by permission of Red Deer Press.
University of Massachusetts Press: Excerpt from Time, The Familiar Stranger, by J. T. Fraser, copyright © 1987 by J. T. Fraser. Reprinted by permission of University of Massachusetts Press.
A special thanks to Zal Yanovsky and Rose Richardson, owners of Kingston’s wonderful restaurant, Chez Piggy, for letting me borrow back my red plaid shirt which they bought several years ago at a Celebrity Auction for Kingston Literacy.
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Red Plaid Shirt: Stories New & Selected
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“Losing Ground”© 1976 by Diane Schoemperlen. “This Town”© 1979 by Diane Schoemperlen. “Frogs”, “Hockey Night in Canada”© 1982 by Diane Schoemperlen. “Clues”© 1984 by Diane Schoemperlen. “Tickets to Spain”© 1985 by Diane Schoemperlen. “A Simple Story”, “The Man of My Dreams” © 1987 by Diane Schoemperlen. “In a Dark Season”, “Red Plaid Shirt”, “Stranger Than Fiction”, “Railroading or: Twelve Small Stories with the Word Train in the Title” © 1988 by Diane Schoemperlen. “The Look of the Lightning, The Sound of the Birds”, “Mastering Effective English (A Linguistic Fable)” © 1989 by Diane Schoemperlen. “Nothing Happens”, “A Change is as Good as a Rest” © 1990 by Diane Schoemperlen. “The Antonyms of Fiction” © 1991 by Diane Schoemperlen. “Weights and Measures” © 1993 by Diane Schoemperlen. “Forms of Devotion” © 1994 by Diane Schoemperlen. “How Deep is the River?”, “Five Small Rooms (A Murder Mystery)”© 1996 by Diane Schoemperlen.
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